Joy of the hand-written word

Gwyneth, I grew up in the military : my Dad being a 23 year vet of the USAF. My favorite thing on any AF base in the world we traveled, was the Newstand. In there I smelled the inks and felt the slick covers of my next comic books. I pored over all the great kinds of stationeries stocked upon the shelves; and, always had cool paper to write to my friends I was, by default, always having to leave behind.

To this day, I do enjoy keeping sets of cards and stationeries around for the occasional nostaligic note to old friends and new friends. I admit; however, that as my hands have grown older, they seem to be curling permanently into a fingerboard shaped claw (LOLOL jk) but you know what I mean. Once having begun using a keyboard in the early eighties (I mean a computer keyboard) for the exception of the required handwritten essays written while sitting in a university classroom, it is growing increasingly difficult to write manually. My hand muscles just don't hold up the way they did before, as I try to push a pen around long enough to create a whole letter.

You know, Heron, I thought about your idea of "licenses" and Lord hammercy, you weren't ever a govt. worker were you? They are always creating new jobs for themselves. Any computer can already be tracked by isp number, and yes, I know you sub-mask and create other numbers off your isp number by changing out the last few numbers of the isp. That's how I got scammed and someone remotely took over my puter back in October. But I was able to back-set my computer to a day before they took it over, and some lucky to recover control my machine.

But PLEEEEEEEEEEEZ when we have such a discussion that proposes any type tax, fine, licensing, or new charge let's dooooooooooooooooooooooo whisper, lest the govt. be listening and get an idea they didn't have before. ;-)

Santa Claus is coming tonight. Ohhhh the glee he will see when he visits our tree. Lights so bright he'll need his shades tonight.

HUGS to all you great folks out there. Love and safety is my wish for you all.